The World - News from Feb. 1, 1989
The State Department condemned free-lance missions into Laos, saying such forays “are counterproductive to efforts to fully account for Americans missing in action.” State Department spokesman Charles Redman’s statement was a response to a protest by the Laotian government about an incursion from Thailand in early January, apparently involving one or two Americans. U.S. officials could not identify the Americans and said they did not know if they had been arrested. Two Americans were held by Laos last fall after crossing the border and spreading notices of a reward for delivery of American prisoners from the Vietnam War.
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